So every morning when I wake up I find myself stumbling down the stares to the kitchen – I like to get my tea fix on. Plus I don’t truly wake up until I have some tea (or coffee).
The one thing i never do with my camera is take it on my morning adventure to make tea. Also I would like to point out I have really good tea from an amazing tea store!
Anyways today I was at a loss I couldn’t find my seashell shaped tea strainer. But I was in luck my mom had left her new green tea strainer from Zan’s.
I was wondering what sort of effects tea has on a persons health so clearly I Wikipedia’d it!
Here are my findings:
“Tea leaves contain more than 700 chemicals, among which the compounds closely related to human health are flavanoides, amino acids, vitamins (C, E and K), caffeine and polysaccharides. Moreover, tea drinking has recently proven to be associated with cell-mediated immune function of the human body. Tea plays an important role in improving beneficial intestinal microflora, as well as providing immunity against intestinal disorders and in protecting cell membranes from oxidative damage. Tea also prevents dental caries due to the presence of fluorine. The role of tea is well established in normalizing blood pressure, lipid depressing activity, prevention of coronary heart diseases and diabetes by reducing the blood-glucose activity. Tea also possesses germicidal and germistatic activities against various gram-positive and gram negative human pathogenic bacteria. Both green and black tea infusions contain a number of antioxidants, mainly catechins that have anti-carcinogenic, anti-mutagenic and anti-tumoric properties,”
– As seen on Wikipedia.
Last but not least another awesome photography related quote!
Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product. Edward Steichen
